Samarkand Day Trip from Tashkent by High-Speed Train

<section><h2>Overview</h2><p>The high-speed train has made Samarkand a day trip from the capital. Leave Tashkent before half past seven, spend the day among the monuments of Temur’s capital, and be back for dinner.</p></section><section><h2>The day in Samarkand</h2><p>Your guide meets you off the train and takes you first to the Gur-Emir, the tomb of Amir Temur, and then to the Registan, three madrasas facing one square. The Bibi-Khanym mosque and the Siab Bazaar come next, with a plov lunch at the city’s Plov Centre.</p><p>The afternoon climbs to the Khazrat Khizr mosque, the mausoleum of Islam Karimov and the tiled lane of Shakhi-Zinda, and ends with Ulugbek’s observatory and the Meros paper workshop at Konigil, where paper is still made from mulberry bark.</p></section><section><h2>Highlights</h2><ul><li>Afrosiyob high-speed train both ways</li><li>The Registan and the Gur-Emir</li><li>Bibi-Khanym mosque and Siab Bazaar</li><li>The Shakhi-Zinda necropolis</li><li>Ulugbek’s observatory and the Konigil paper mill</li></ul></section>